OnePlus Buds Pro 2 to support Android’s new spatial audio feature - Digital Trends

OnePlus has already fto it beryllium known that its adjacent wireless earbuds, the OnePlus Buds Pro 2, are conscionable astir the corner. The caller buds, arsenic good arsenic the OnePlus 11 smartphone, volition officially motorboat astatine the OnePlus Cloud 11 lawsuit connected February 7, 2023. But until now, we’ve been successful the acheronian connected astir each of the details. And portion we inactive don’t cognize cardinal facts similar pricing and artillery life, OnePlus has announced that the caller noise-canceling buds volition beryllium among the archetypal to enactment Android 13’s spatial audio feature.

OnePlus

OnePlus says the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 — the successors to the OnePlus Buds Pro — volition “set a caller modular for spatial audio stableness and compatibility” erstwhile they motorboat extracurricular China connected February 7, 2023. The diagnostic volition enactment with audio that is spatial-ready, similar Dolby Atmos Music, but OnePlus is besides integrating the quality to up-mix modular two-channel stereo into a virtualized spatial presentation.

We’ve seen respective wireless earbuds with their ain proprietary forms of spatial audio processing, including Apple’s AirPods Pro and LG’s Tone Free T90Q, which leverages Dolby Labs’ expertise with Dolby Atmos. However, with Android 13, spatial audio processing happens wrong the operating system, not needfully wrong the earbuds, which could mean large improvements to latency.

Android 13 besides lets earbuds augment the 3D prime of spatial audio by adding caput tracking information to the mix, thing the Buds Pro 2 instrumentality afloat vantage of. “The dependable ever comes from a fixed presumption careless of movement, with the aforesaid prime of 3D audio arsenic successful the cinema,” OnePlus told Digital Trends via email. The head-tracking information volition besides beryllium made disposable to different Android applications.

We’ve besides been told that the Buds Pro 2 volition enactment with Google’s caller Fast Pair enhancement known arsenic audio switching.

Google’s ain Pixel Buds Pro are besides expected to beryllium compatible with Android’s spatial audio feature, but we don’t yet cognize if Google volition merchandise this update up of the OnePlus Buds Pro 2 — a concern that could spot the OnePlus earbuds go the archetypal merchandise to connection 1 of Google’s newest technologies.

Editors' Recommendations

• The Apple HomePod is back, with caller smarts, and a little price
• The champion audio cogwheel from CES 2023
• Digital Trends’ Tech For Change CES 2023 Awards
• CES 2023: New Sennheiser wireless earbuds assistance you perceive amended successful noisy places
• HP and Poly situation Jabra astatine CES 2023 with Voyager Free 60 hybrid earbuds